Virginia Woolfs To The Lighthouse †Role of Wife and Mother Essay

 To the lighthouse Role of Wife and Mother    Woolf portrays the character of Mrs. Ramsay as a ego sacrificing woman and have as defined with her interactions with men Charles Tansley, Mr. Carmichael, Paul, Mr. Bankes, Mr. Ramsay, and James. During Mrs. Ramsays life she is admired by most of these men, and is continually striving to be esteemed by all of them, at any sacrifice to herself. Although there is duty in Mrs. Ramsay, not unselfishly given, there are also move up questions of this representation of mother by Woolf, primarily put forth through the characters of Lily and Mrs. Ramsays daughters. In thinking about herself as a mother, Mrs. Ramsay says that, She often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.(p.32) She is the soul responsible for appeasing the worries of her husband and caring for the needs of her children, not to arouse the stray people, mostly men, for whom she cares. In this particular paragraph, she defines what is to be a woman, wife, and mother in England at the beginning of the centu...